Huntington, R. Danny

R. Danny Huntington is a partner with Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, PC in Washington, D.C.  He is involved in all phases of intellectual property law, including United States and foreign patent prosecution, litigation in the Federal and State Courts, licensing, and general client counseling. He has extensive patent interference experience, with particular expertise in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, having been involved in prosecution and litigation of cases from filing a patent application on a protein translation kit in 1979, up through the interferences involving CRISPR.  He has handled various cases in the Inter Partes Review, Post Grant Review, and Covered Business Method proceedings that came into being in 2012 as a part of the America Invents Act.  Mr. Huntington has written and lectured on a wide range of legal topics both domestically and internationally.

He is a member of Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle (FICPI), the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Intellectual Property Owners, the Federal Circuit Bar Association, Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI), and International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI).

He earned his Juris Doctor in 1976 from The National Law Center at The George Washington University, and his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry in 1972 from Indiana University.  He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.